03.20.09: chez us*

champ HQ

the first day of spring, and new york serves up snow: internets, this is why i left california. what's the new season looking like where you are?


*a cookie for you if you can guess which windows (two of 'em) are ours.

11 comments:

Amanda Bruns said...

Wait: ACTUally a cookie?

I say middle left two. Snoooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

tom said...

Actually, I'm thinking (purely from memory) Row Two, Columns 2-3.

20s and wind coming off the lake. But: sixty and seventies are in the mail.

valya said...

here, it's looking like spring! sunny weather in the high 60s/low 70s the past two days, which i spent outside playing with kids and picking sweet-as-sugar clementines. this is why i still live in california!

jacob said...

that's why you left california? dude, you could just drive up to big bear if you want to see snow. but i guess i understand living vs. visiting it.

comparing temperatures of the cities in my last month-and-a-half of travel: new orleans > newport beach > london > berlin > providence > chicago > iowa city.

far left (the less ornate balcony), second row.

lauren said...

@jacob: okay, it's one of a few reasons (being offered gainful full-time employment factored in a bit), but the metropolitan cold* is huge. it would be great for me personally if it stayed chilly for another several weeks, really: all of my cute mid-weight outerwear is vacuum-packed in bed bug jail, and i haven't been able to wear it to my satisfaction this season. little plaid swing coat, i miss you!

vaguely related: i now have liz phair's "california" in my head.

on windows: i thought one of you had it, but then i realized i myself was wrong. no one's guessed right yet.

*one of the reasons big bear wouldn't suffice. the other is that we had a cabin there when i was growing up, and i hated it with the fire of a thousand suns.

jacob said...

crap, lauren, now you've put rufus wainwright's "california" in _my_ head: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCel8QqcoXU

Rachel (Heart of Light) said...

Okay, fine. There is no rebuttal. We do not have city snow in California. Today it's foggy and I can go sit on the beach! Does that make you want to move back?

lauren said...

if it's swimmable and you sit on the beach near taco loco, maybe. the rhetoric of nachos is formidable.

wabes said...

we've got lots of birds singing at dawn and dusk here in berlin, temps in the high 40s, and bright amazing sunshine (for once!). and lots of spring-oriented plants for sale - tulips and daffodils, forsythia sprigs, and pussywillows. which translates as "meadow kittens", i think.

trying to figure out your camera angle & window location is making me realize i am totally uncaffeinated today. better go fix that...

meg said...

This takes me back. To David and I standing outside of your building countles times trying to figure out which window was yours so we could ring up/ toss a pebble up and invite you down for a drink. We used to do this pre-being a couple even.

We never figured it out though.

I'm pretty sure your balcony is non ornate, and you can't see any two of those.

lauren said...

we've got one of each (ornate & non), actually: our left window has a little winged imp-guy with a curve missing beneath his right foot. you can't see him very well from across the street, mind you - i just think he's really cool.

long story short: bottom left two.